This small book on Jharkhand by Yemuna Sunny is part of the innovative Nature-Society Series on Indian States brought out by Eklavya. It builds on Sunny’s rigorous and long-term engagement with social geography which also informs her earlier book, Sprout: A Social Geography of Rajasthan (2014). Whereas traditional geography would reduce a place to its physical landscape, its breadth and length, or a statistical mapping of the people and a study of its flora and fauna, Sunny’s work brings a dynamic understanding of land that is in interaction with its people and various institutions.
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